On the subject of juries, we would like to register a strong vote for the
ACC point system. We served on the Bainbridge Craft Show jury with Kay
Perine and Gervais Reed, using the 4-point system: 1 point, rejected;
2, accepted with reservations; 3, fully accepted; 4, accepted and prize-
worthy. Items were numbered; each juror had a complete list on which
he worked independently and at his own speed. The committee tabulated
results, then jurors conferred on ties for awards. The show committec
later determined the cut-off at 6 points, on the basis of available space,
Jurors agreed the system was the fairest they had used, Pauli Dennis,
show chairman, thought it very successful, as did Paul Michacls, James
Washington, Jr. and Phillip Levine, who juried the Bainbridge Art Show
on points the following month.

We also worked with Virginia Kobler and Robert Sperry on the Edmonds
Art Festival jury, with the old toss-dewn-a-colored-slip then confer-
argue-concede-bulldozge system. We are thoroughly convinced that it is
fair to neither jury nor entrants. Am sure that cach of us went home
feeling dissatisfied and at least a little frustrated but with no idea how we
could have done better under the circumstances. Here's to points!

The Northwest Region slide collection is in the hands of Jane Gehring,
School of Arts and Architecture, Univ. of Oregon, Eugene. She has free
catalogs, too. Rental fee for cach unit is only $1 for ACC craftsman
sustaining members. Crafts covered include jewelry, metals, textiles,
glass, wood, enamels, architectural work, mosaics, leatherwork, ceramics.

BEATRICE WOOD EXHIBITION - Vancouver Art Gallery

Miss Wood of Ojai, California, is represented in the permanent collection
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and in museums in Italy,

Japan and India.

Her primary concern is the spectacular colour and nacrgous surface
provided by Luster glazes. Luster is a form of overglaze decoration in
which a thin metallic film is developed on the surface of the glaze. It is
achieved by reduction firing or in an oxidizing fire by using local
reducing agents. Copper, silver, gold and bismuth in the form of
chlorides or nitrates are the favoured metals. These are applied to the
slazed ware by using various binding agents. For more detailed
information refer to Clay and Glazes for the Potter by D. Rhodes,

page 182, 7.